Here's a blast from the past (December 2006): What do candy, Microsoft products and Congress have in common? You can read more about this in the latest news on the subject . If you thought tracking the machinations of various daylight saving time and...

It's been and will continue to be a busy week filled with reviews, planning and report, not to mention some real work with some of our best folks on product quality, customer service and satisfaction. So here's a quick post of what I've read over the...

A quick quick Tweet as the Register's James Sherwood reports that the Daylight savings shift to cause phone havoc Down Under (that's Australia...): "Unsuspecting Aussies could be in for a spot of time travel this weekend, because Australian network operator...

Ever see the movie Groundhog Day ? Well, I feel like I'm re-living a past event. The government of Argentina is changing their daylight saving time just as they did last December . And once again, this fast-tracked change came with little advance notice...

Greg Kelton of Adelaide Now reported (October 01, 2008 11:50am) daylight saving started this weekend down under, and noted that "any further attempts to have South Australia move to eastern standard time will be rejected by the Rann Government."...

You can now knock a couple of blogs off your reading list. No, they weren't tossed – nor did the blogger go on permanent holiday as some are wont to do – but a couple of our Windows blogs were merged into the new Windows Team blog , with (as Brandon says...

OK, deep breath for those of you watching the market today. The weekend is here. Markets are closed. Keep in mind that as Cable Digital News reported last week, the financial bailout plan is enough capital to install fiber to every single home (FTTH)...

A few updates and notifications on the DST and TZ web site... (thanks, Lourdes!) Windows Hotfix Now Available for Brazil 2008-2009 Daylight Savings Time changes : The government of Brazil announced a change in the observance of daylight saving time in...

In this video from CNET's Ina Fried and Kara Tsuboi, you'll learn "why consumers can expect more "dessert" and fewer "vegetables" from the new operating system, and talks about the reasoning behind the number 7 in the name." Dessert? Vegetables? I can...

In addition to the end of Central European Summer Time this weekend... the Russian News and Information Agency, Novosti, announced this weekend (October 25) that daylight saving time ends in Russia this Sunday "when the country will put clocks back one...

As I tweeted tonight on Twitter and noted earlier this week, daylight saving time ends this weekend in much of North America. As we've noted online, in the United States the Energy Policy Act of 2005 introduced changes to the start and end dates...

Hopefully you survived the end of European Summer Time and Moscow Daylight Time on Sunday (as I posted this weekend ). Keep in mind that daylight saving time ends this weekend in much of the United States and Canada. The difference in the changes between...

As noted today on Twitter , a quick post before I head off to my next meeting. An interesting post this week forwarded to me from technologizer.com on Windows7 , from Harry McCracken, providing "a hands-on look at an upgrade that could turn out to be...

Generally the lack of posts in October is directly related to the (growing) amount of work on my plate at the office. It's been very busy, as we increase efforts in advance of PDC and WinHEC, and the efforts we have currently on track. It was with...